Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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